Levels of Measurement Flashcards

What is the measurement type for hair color on a high school tennis team?

What is the measurement type for numbers on the shirts of a girl's soccer team?

What type of measurement is the age of students in a statistics class?

What type of measurement is indicated by the temperatures of 73 selected refrigerators?

What type of measurement is represented by the number of milligrams of tar in 85 cigarettes?

What type of measurement corresponds to the number of pages in your statistics book?

What measurement type is marriage status of faculty members (married, single, or divorced)?

What measurement type is applied in a list of 1239 social security numbers?

What type of measurement is the ratings of a movie ranging from 'poor' to 'good' to 'excellent'?

What is the measurement type for final grades (A, B, C, D, and F) for students in a statistics class?

What type of measurement is the annual salaries for all teachers in California?

What is the measurement type indicated by a list of zip codes for Chicago?

What type of measurement is the nationalities listed in a recent survey (e.g., Asian, European, or Hispanic)?

What type of measurement is the amounts of fat (in grams) in 29 cookies?

What is the measurement type for the years the summer Olympics were held in the United States?

Nominal Scale
- Used for categorizing data without a meaningful order.
- Examples include:
  - Hair color on a high school tennis team.
  - Numbers on the shirts of a girl's soccer team.
  - Marriage status of faculty members (married, single, divorced).
  - List of social security numbers.
  - Zip codes for Chicago.
  - Nationalities in a survey (Asian, European, Hispanic).
Ordinal Scale
- Represents data with a meaningful order, but intervals between levels are not uniform.
- Examples include:
  - Movie ratings ranging from "poor" to "excellent."
  - Final grades for students (A, B, C, D, F).
Interval Scale
- Involves ordered categories with a consistent and meaningful distance between values, but no true zero point.
- Example includes:
  - Temperatures of 73 selected refrigerators.
  - Years the summer Olympics were held in the United States.
Ratio Scale
- Features all properties of nominal, ordinal, and interval scales, plus a true zero, allowing for the calculation of ratios.
- Examples include:
  - Age of students in a statistics class.
  - Number of milligrams of tar in 85 cigarettes.
  - Number of pages in a statistics book.
  - Annual salaries for teachers in California.
  - Amounts of fat (in grams) in 29 cookies.

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